A Scottish man obsessed with vampires has been jailed for life after killing his best friend, drinking his blood and eating part of his skull, British media reported Thursday.

A student that pointed out copy protection software could be blocked if people used the SHIFT key when they inserted a CD, will be sued by SunnComm - company motto "Light years beyond encryption".

Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded in an ambush in the same Baghdad neighborhood where hours earlier a suicide car bomb killed 10 people, including the driver, the U.S. military said today.

Six months from the day Baghdad fell to American troops, George W. Bush told Americans yesterday that the situation in Iraq is "a lot better than you probably think."

Criminals have stolen thousands of pounds from cash withdrawal machines using a hi-tech trick that leaves bank users unaware they have been robbed, the Evening Standard reveals today.

The thieves are fitting micro scanners and cameras to hole-in-the-wall machines in a swindle that marks a new level of sophistication in bank card fraud.

Previously criminals have actually had to get their hands on a victim's card but the new scam allows them to clone cards and record PIN codes without having to be in the vicinity of the cash machine.

Israeli warplanes attacked an Islamic Jihad training base deep in Syria in retaliation for a suicide bombing at a Haifa restaurant that killed 19 people, the army said Sunday. Israeli media said it was the first Israeli attack on Syrian soil in more than two decades.

An enraged Ethiopian mother of five will be tried for the murder of her husband who died after she crushed his testicles in a fight, police told the state-run Ethiopian News Agency.

China plans to conduct experiments related to a moon landing, a senior science official was quoted as saying on Sunday, just days before the country is expected to launch its first manned space flight.

An Internet broadcast of a concert that was to feature a suicide of a terminally ill person did not happen Saturday because the Web site was attacked.

President Yasser Arafat, facing an Israeli threat to "remove" him after further Palestinian suicide bombings, on Sunday declared a state of emergency in Palestinian areas, his office said.